Amalickiah / Ameleckiah Variant
Amalickiah / Ameleckiah - Variant Spelling
-Alma 46:5, 6; 47:19, 30; 49:10; 51:25
O: Ameleckiah >+ Amalickiah P 1830
Discussion: Spelled as Ameleckiah but immediately corrected to Amalickiah in O; "The common misspelling Ameleckiah is the result of Joseph Smith pronouncing the name with stress on the first syllable" (ATV 4:2529)
Acceptability: Scribal error; correct form is Amalickiah
Source: ATV 4:2529
-Alma 46:10
O: Ame( )eckiah
-Alma 46:11; 47:21; 51:23b, 27, 30; 54:16
O: Amelickiah
-Alma 46:30a
O: ( )male( )
-Alma 46:30b
O: Amele( )
-Alma 46:30c
O: Ameleck( )
-Alma 46:31, 33; 47:16, 18, 21, 33, 34; 48:1; 51:32, 33; 52:1, 3b; 55:5
O: Ameleckiah
-Alma 47:1, 35
O: Amaleckiah
-Alma 47:3
O: Ame( )ckiah >+ Ama( )ckiah
-Alma 47:4
O: Amelickaah >+ Amalickiah
-Alma 47:8
O: Anelickiahs >+ Amalickiahs
-Alma 47:11; 52:3a
O: Amelickiah >+ Amalickiah
-Alma 47:13a
O: Ameleckiak >+ Ameleckiah
-Alma 47:13b
O: Amelleckiah >+ Amaleckiah
-Alma 47:13c
O: Ameleckeah >+ Amaleckiah
-Alma 47:14, 15a, 20, 22
O: Ameleckiah >+ Amelickiah
-Alma 47:15b
O: Amaleckeah >+ Amalickiah
-Alma 47:25
O: Ameleck( ) >+ Amelick( )
-Alma 47:27a
O: Amelec( )
-Alma 47:32
O: Ameleckia( ) >+ Amelickia( )
-Alma 48:7; 51:23a
O: Ameleckiah >+ Amaleckiah
-Alma 49:25
O: Ameleckiah >+ Amelichiah
General Source: ATV 4:2529; OM 379 passim
General Summary: Skousen accepts the correct spelling as Amalickiah (because it is spelled this way in the first two occurrences in O, and because of corrections made); all of the other variations are scribal errors.
Other occurrences not discussed in ATV: Alma 46:7, 28, 29, 32; 47:12, 27b; 49:11; 51:9, 11, 12, 37; 62:35, but all are listed in Skousen, “Translating the Book of Mormon: The Evidence from the Original Manuscript,” in N. Reynolds, ed., Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited (FARMS, 1997), 79-82 (whole article pp. 61-95).
